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WOME 3030

Housewives, Radicals and Gender-Blenders: Theorizing Equality

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Intersectional feminism has been foundational since the early 1990s. All
  • feminist theories now incorporate an intersectional feminist lens. Some
  • theories incorporated intersectional feminism early on or indeed birthed it
  • intersectionality was introduced under a different name by Black Socialist
  • Feminists and Multiracial/Multiethnic feminists like Audre Lorde and bell
  • hooks in the early 1980s
  • other theories took it up after the term
  • “intersectionality” was introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 to build on
  • concepts like Lorde’s matrix of domination. Intersectional feminism is
  • everywhere in feminisms now, as it
  • work too. If you’re unsure about what Intersectional feminism is,
  • Crenshaw to refresh! You covered it in WOME-1100, so revisit those notes
  • another
  • Roxanne Gay, “Bad Feminist Manifesto”, in Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice
  • (eds.), Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain 2nd ed (Women’s
  • Press, 2018)
  • Part A: Gender Reform Feminisms
  • Liberal and Marxist Feminisms
  • management roles important to Liberal feminists? How do Marxist feminists
  • theorize the gender wage gap?
  • Socialist and Transnational Feminisms

Readings

  • Verna St. Denis, “Feminism is for Everybody: Aboriginal Women, Feminism, and Diversity”, in Joyce Green, eds., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Press, 2017), 33-52.
  • Gina Starblanket, “Being Indigenous Feminists”, in Joyce Green, (ed), Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms (2nd edition) (Fernwood Press
  • Leslie Fienberg, “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come”, in Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (eds.), feminist theory reader: Local and Global Perspectives 3rd ed (Routledge, 2013), 148-158 Prompt Question: Does the term woman have cogence/meaning? How are queer and trans feminisms challenging to identity politics?
  • Judy Rebick, “The Future of Feminism”, in Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice (eds.), Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain (2nd ed) (Women’s Press, 2018), 700-706.
  • Sonja John, “Idle No More: Indigenous Activism and Feminism”, in Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice (eds.), Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain (2nd ed) (Women’s Press, 2018), 681- 687.
  • Eziwanne Toochukwu Odozor, “A Love Ethic for Black Feminisms”, Hypatia 37 (2) (2022), 241-256.
  • Kai Cheng Thom, “9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible”, in Margaret Hobbs and Carla Rice (eds.), Gender and Women’s Studies: Critical Terrain (2nd ed) (Women’s Press
  • 2018), 692-696. NOTE: The second Feminist Autobiography is due by December 12.
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